Parafox

The best pundit by a long way. I wish he could be on all TV football coverage.

There is but I can't spell it..

Just heading over to the "Absolute ***** Of Our Time" topic to post: "everyone in a position of wealth and power".

Yeah, have a night in front of the telly and watch the Euros for the next 3 weeks. Why bother doing any canvassing when you know it's over?

Complacency and arrogance.

Why would you post the answer? Cretin.

Supply vs demand? 1988 our first house, a terrace on a main road, £17,500. Now going for £169,000. Our current house bought for £85,000 now valued after 25 years, at £350,000. I own a house worth a third of a million pounds!! That's like a mansion, back in the day. My parents would've been proud.

Joined M1 south from J25 yesterday, got in behind a decrepit old boy in a knackered old Vauxhall Astra 2005 plate, constant 45 MPH. It's just dangerous.

Prospective next Tory leader? The Tories really are ****ed if the front runners for the leadership are anything to go by, Badenoch, (even her name is completely open to ridicule if she ever makes a faux pas), Cleverley, (same). Mordaunt, just dressed up as some chess piece for the funeral of the late Queen. Comes across as even more dim and out of touch as Truss and Sunak. As do the others. Then you look across the pond and at the major European countries and one wonders where have the real statesmen gone? It seems to me that prospective or incumbent leaders of the "free world" aren't invested in the interests of their country, but only in themselves and the prospect of power at all costs.

If the weather was like this in October/autumn, most people would have their heating on, at least in the evening. Because it's June and it's meant to be early summer, I guess most don't. We have put it on this evening because it's stupidly chilly. We've just had a few days in Yorkshire by the coast and had a barbecue on Tuesday evening. It was that chilly we could see our exhaled breath and we sat in coats and hoodies.

There's statesmen and then there's Sunak looking like he's found a MILF.

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Flailing like a fish out of water under the public questions.

His 2 chief advisors. From the Scottish Conservatives.

He accepted defeat when he announced the election. Now it's just lip service.

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You just knew this would be posted: Then:

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Same

At long last. It's an awful place. My own daughter who has been there a few times as a patient has described as "very bad" for her own MH. She has witnessed self harm, actual, and intended but prevented. When we have visited her it was clearly not a place designed to help recovery. Disinterested staff, little interaction, a dormitory style of sleeping areas, little in the way of privacy. There's holes kicked in walls, a patient had spat snot and coffee and mucus on a window that had dried on and not been cleaned off. I always left after a visit, feeling a sense of despair that this was the place my daughter was living in and for those other patients. It is not a very reassuring or consoling place to be. They all deserve a decent place to have treatment and support, a "nice" place to be when you're at your lowest and most desperate rather than be treated as if you're a burden and "it's you own fault". Don't get me wrong, there are plenty of well meaning staff, but it certainly varies depending on who is on shift. IMO, people recovering from a MH crisis need a calm, friendly, supportive environment where they can feel valued and respected, listened to and understood. I know it's not straightforward and many MH patients will have diverse needs on the road to recovery and yes, many if not most, will suffer a relapse at some point. When my daughter was relapsing she was so terrified of going back to the MH unit that she refused treatment voluntarily and when the MH team wanted to admit her, got so distressed that she had to be restrained by police and detained under section. Because she knew what the place was like.

Surely this is piss-take. That video only reminds me of the TikTok murderer.

You do know she has had MH struggles of her own, don't you? I think that gives her the right to express those issues in her songs. Her fan base is very likely a mix of ages who actually enjoy her music. I never understood the reaction of teen girls in the 60's to The Beatles and I'm still not a fan. That doesn't mean I don't look at them and say, well done you, rather than simply dismissing them as "crap", just because they weren't my cup of tea.